I'm pretty sure this will work but wanted to run it by the experts just in case there's something wrong with my logic ...

I'm tired of having the 1TB WD Expander hanging off of my OLED S3 (original internal drive). Rather than having to deal with finding one of the specific models of drives that will work (as listed in this thread), I figure I could just divorce the Expander, make a truncated backup of the internal drive with WinMFS, crack open the Expander and take out the 1TB drive, restore the image to it and use it as the single internal drive. I'm willing to lose the extra 320gb of recording capacity by just keeping that stock drive around in case of emergency.

Any flaws in my logic here?

No flaws that I can see. I guess my only concern would be the lifespan of the external drive (which s/b a WD10XXVS drive). If it's been in service for a while it means that it may be that much closer to failure. If you can spare the money I'd suggest just getting a new 1TB (or even 1.5TB) drive. That way you'll have a little peace of mind and a 3 year warranty.

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I hope this is the right place to post, but I had a drive fail on a Series 3. I got a WD5000AAKX as a replacement. Ran instantcake on it which seemed to work correctly and took a few minutes to write to the disk. Now, however, I'm stuck at welcome! powering up where it loops continuously. It'll show the screen for about a minute then restart and do the same thing over and over. Any suggestions on how to fix this please? Thanks!

I installed a Western Digital WD20EVDS into my S3. Got stuck on "Powering Up". Disabled Intellipark and now it boots okay. Did a restart and still okay.

Model: WD20EVDS-63T3B0
Serial #WCAVY6773253
Date: 03 MAR 2011

[edit] I should add that I limited WinMFS to 1Tb and am showing 212 hours of recording capacity. I went with the 2Tb drive because it was cheaper than 1.5Tb and in case I re-purpose it for computer use down the road.

Finally about to switch to Verizon FIOS (installation scheduled for next week).

This means I really should finally revive my S3 with a new hard drive.

Which means I am posting an open request to one of the kind usual suspects to point me to an S3 image!
(to clarify, my 250GB drive is dead, unrevivable a,d not useful as a source!)

At least losing the Comcast cable card pairing info won't be painful, since I'm ditching Comcast as well! Can anyon confirm that FIOS continues to not pair cards to the TiVo? So were I to 'upgrade' to a Premiere I could retain ONE of the two M-Cards I'll get from Verizon for reuse in the Premiere in multi-stream mode, and return the other, without requiring a future truck roll?

Also, requesting a confirmation that the 1TB WD 10EVCS and 10EVDS are two of the supported/reliable/recommended upgrade options for the S3. About to pull the trigger at Newegg for 69.99

Thanks!

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I hope this is the right place to post, but I had a drive fail on a Series 3. I got a WD5000AAKX as a replacement. Ran instantcake on it which seemed to work correctly and took a few minutes to write to the disk. Now, however, I'm stuck at welcome! powering up where it loops continuously. It'll show the screen for about a minute then restart and do the same thing over and over. Any suggestions on how to fix this please? Thanks!

Just throwing an idea out: Did you have to use, or change any jumpers on the drive while running the IC program. If so, is the jumper removed or correct for the drive to now operate in the Tivo?

Also, are the sata and power cables properly connected to the drive now that it's back in Tivo?

Finally, did you check to see if it is necessary to adjust "intellipark" settings for that particular drive model?

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Just throwing an idea out: Did you have to use, or change any jumpers on the drive while running the IC program. If so, is the jumper removed or correct for the drive to now operate in the Tivo?

Also, are the sata and power cables properly connected to the drive now that it's back in Tivo?

Finally, did you check to see if it is necessary to adjust "intellipark" settings for that particular drive model?

Good luck?

Thank you for the reply. There were no jumpers on the drive at all and I noted there was also not one on the original drive I removed either. The cables are properly seated and the drive spins up when I have power to the tivo. I'm not sure if I need to do "intellipark" but from what I have read on here so far, it seems this drive, manufactured in March 2011, shouldn't need to have this done. I'm not sure what else to do.

Thank you for the reply. There were no jumpers on the drive at all and I noted there was also not one on the original drive I removed either. The cables are properly seated and the drive spins up when I have power to the tivo. I'm not sure if I need to do "intellipark" but from what I have read on here so far, it seems this drive, manufactured in March 2011, shouldn't need to have this done. I'm not sure what else to do.

Just for the sake of discussion, how did you come to conclude your previous drive failed? Did you run the typical diagnostics; kickstarts, mfr diagnostics, etc? Just trying to determine if you had already ruled out power supply issues.

Also, did you run any diagnostics on the new drive?

Finally, although I never used IC for the S3 or Tivo HD, I did use it several years ago for a couple of Series 2 boxes. Have you reviewed the IC procedures. Specifically, as I recall for mine, did you get the message from the IC process that your dirve was "baked", and ready to install in the Tivo. Also, that that you have the correct IC image for your specific model?

Just for the sake of discussion, how did you come to conclude your previous drive failed? Did you run the typical diagnostics; kickstarts, mfr diagnostics, etc? Just trying to determine if you had already ruled out power supply issues.

Also, did you run any diagnostics on the new drive?

Finally, although I never used IC for the S3 or Tivo HD, I did use it several years ago for a couple of Series 2 boxes. Have you reviewed the IC procedures. Specifically, as I recall for mine, did you get the message from the IC process that your dirve was "baked", and ready to install in the Tivo. Also, that that you have the correct IC image for your specific model?

The old drive did not spin at all as far as I could tell, I also took it out of the Tivo box and plugged it into the computer to test and it wasn't even recognized so I couldn't perform any diagnostics on it either. I did do diagnostic on the new drive and it was fine. I did get a confirmation from IC that the image was "baked" successfully and it was for the correct model Tivo.

I read about the power supply issues and think that's a possibility, but if that's the case, I can't find a cheap power supply and would probably be better off just buying a refurb Premiere. I'd like to save the S3 if possible however, so that's why I'm going this route first.

Thanks, I suppose I could give that a try. I had read it was only on the Caviar Green drives that were doing that and since this is a Caviar Blue, I didn't think it needed it. Worth a shot anyway to see if that fixes the problem.

Yeah, you're probably right about re-selling the Expander. Maybe I should just do that and then put the money towards a WD10EVDS instead.

I decided to go ahead with the internal 1TB upgrade.

The WD10EARS I got from Amazon today had a 25-SEP-2010 manufacture date, but I still had to use wdidle3 on it because it got stuck at "Powering Up" after I put it into my S3. I also used HDDScan to set the acoustic management to 128.

Now, however, I'm looking at the Green Screen of Death. It's been running for just about an hour, so I'm going to leave it and see what happens.

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I just ordered a WD10EARS from Tiger Direct and it should be here next week. It will be installed in my Tivo HD. I don't plant to mess with any drive settings. I am just going to run winMFS. I assume this should work since the soft boot/ Intellipark problems have been resolved.

If I run into any problems with the install I will report them.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread.

The drive arrived earlier this afternoon. I upgraded using winMFS with no problems. The Tivo now reports 142 hours of HD capacity.

What version software is your THD on now? When its updated to 11.0+, it should report about 157 hrs.

My software version is 11.0k[plus a bunch of numbers]

By the way, I didn't do anything special to the drive. I just unpackaged it, ran winMFS, and installed it. I didn't write down the manufacture date but the sku is TSD-1000EARS SY. It came in OEM packaging.

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The drive arrived earlier this afternoon. I upgraded using winMFS with no problems. The Tivo now reports 142 hours of HD capacity.

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What version software is your THD on now? When its updated to 11.0+, it should report about 157 hrs.

I think 142 hrs means it wan't "supersized" during the WinMFS restore. IIRC, you can run WinMFS on it again and perform the supersize alone. (But check out the TiVo software version factor first in case that does it.)

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I think 142 hrs means it wan't "supersized" during the WinMFS restore. IIRC, you can run WinMFS on it again and perform the supersize alone. (But check out the TiVo software version factor first in case that does it.)

That makes sense. I did not use the "supersize" option. 142 hours is already more TV that I can watch. I went with 1 TB because the price was only $54 + $2.99 shipping.

I upgraded my Series 3 a couple of years ago and it shows 143 HD hours. I did not use the "supersize" option on that drive either.